The basketball diaries
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Publication
1987 - Penguin Books, New York, N.Y., U.S.A, New York (State)
Language
English
Word Count
52,500 words, Guess
Page Count
210 pages
Identifiers
- Internet Archivebasketballdiarie00carr
- ISBN-100140100180
- ISBN-139780140100181
- LibraryThing27145
- Goodreads682745
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- Library of Congress Control Number87025496
- OCLC Control Number16049456
- Better World Books9780140100181
- Open LibraryOL2395769M
Classifications
- DDC813/.54
- LCCPS3553.A7644 Z464 1987
- LCCPS3553.A7644Z464
Description
The Basketball Diaries is a 1978 memoir written by author and musician Jim Carroll. It is an edited collection of the diaries he kept between the ages of twelve and sixteen. The original classic story about growing up with drugs and sex and about learning to survive on the streets of New York--once again in print. An urban classic of coming of age.
Description
Today, Jim Carroll is a highly renowned poet and rock musician. But in the mid-1960s, during his coming-of-age from twelve to fifteen, he was a rebellious teenager making a place and a name for himself on the unforgiving streets of New York City. During those years, he chronicled his experiences, and the result is a diary of unparalleled candor that conveys his alternately hilarious and terrifying teenage existence. Here is Carroll prowling New York City--playing basketball, getting high, getting hooked, and searching for something pure.--lastgasp.com.
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